The Goblin’s last stand?

I don’t know, but I’m starting to think that the producers of the Spider-Man Broadway musical should have picked a different name, especially given that they can’t seem to turn ON the light for their $60 million show. According to a recent report from the NY Times, the show’s opening has been delayed, yet again...

The first performance was supposed to be in nine days, on Nov. 14, but this is a show that its famous creators — the director Julie Taymor and U2’s Bono and the Edge — are laboring to finish. The two-dozen flying sequences are being worked out and still require safety approval from the state Department of Labor. The music, marking the Broadway debut of the U2 frontmen, still isn’t synchronized with special effects, plot and dialogue. Scene-to-scene transitions, essential for rhythm and safety, aren’t complete. Two actors have been injured hurtling through acrobatic rehearsal sequences.

Yep, that’s right, it seems that this hero just can’t seem to get this show up off the ground, and it is going to miss having a pre-Thanksgiving Day opening, and lose out on much (if not all) of the very lucrative holiday theater-going traffic.

Apparently there is a serous safty issue in regards to the “flying” issues

...the show has developed a problematic reputation, at least in the short term. Questions have been raised, and a state investigation is under way, about the safety of the flying. All of the attention on special effects may ward off traditional theatergoers who want a good score and story; some older people, for instance, have asked group sales agents if there is anything in the show for them.

Personally, I can’t help but to think that Norman Osborn is cackling to himself from his prison cell on the Raft (located just off Ryker’s Island) 

This toy has no dick

Yes, it’s really true, Mattel’s Ghost Busters, Walter Peck, action figure, has no dick (but then again, according to both Dr. Raymond Stantz (Dan Ackroid) and Dr. Peter Venkman (Bill Murry), neither does Peck (William Atherton) himself.

Dr Ray Stantz: Everything was fine with our system until the power grid was shut off by dickless here.
Walter Peck: They caused an explosion!
Mayor: Is this true?
Dr. Peter Venkman: Yes it's true.
[pause]
Dr. Peter Venkman: This man has no dick.
Walter Peck: Jeez!
[Charges at Venkman]
Mayor: Break it up! Hey, break this up! Break it up!
Walter Peck: All right, all right, all right!
Dr. Peter Venkman: Well, that's what I heard!

Anyways, I truly think that this was the funniest dialogue exchange I ever heard in a film, so I just might have to acquire this figure myself.